Motivational Quotes

Success

Failure has no friends.

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Success

1.

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

Holt, Hamilton

2.

Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Eric Schmidt

3.

Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.

Davis Jr., Sammy

4.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.

5.

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

Ashe, Arthur

6.

Underpromise; overdeliver.

Tom Peters

7.

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

Ziglar, Zig

8.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you're not a success.

Tarkenton, Fran

9.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Robert Browning

10.

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.

Confucius

11.

If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.

Los Angeles Times

12.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

Twain, Mark

13.

You already have every characteristic necessary for success.

14.

To give your best is to receive the best.

Holliwell, Raymond

15.

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.

Proverb

16.

The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

17.

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

Henry David Thoreau

18.

Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

The only journey is the one within.

Rilke, Rainer Maria

20.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Holiday, Billie

21.

It's the men behind who make the man ahead.

Crowell, Merle

22.

Success... it's what you do with what you've got.

Dyke, Leroy Van

23.

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.

Dr. David M. Burns

24.

Only a life built into God's place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly

Welch, Bishop Herbert E.

25.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Christopher Lasch

26.

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

Nightingale, Earl

27.

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

28.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

Success tempts many to their ruin.

Phaedrus

30.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.

Emmons, G.

31.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

Shula, Don

32.

Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot better than losing. Really a lot better.

Kate Winslet

33.

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.

Hogan, James P.

34.

Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]

Damon, Matt

35.

Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.

Napier, Sir Charles

36.

Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.

Bach, Dr. Marcus

37.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Rohn, Jim

38.

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.